If anyone has been keeping track, my Generation Try Girl income history has been brief and varied, but from what I’ve learned this month “what you put in is what you get out.” In my first three weeks of this blog, I’d made over $50. This was a result of hard work, or I should say harder work than I’ve been putting in lately. At the end of March, I’d written a total of 11 well constructed/thoughtful posts ,many geared towards making income. Now, at the end of May, I’ve published a total of just six posts. And two of them were monthly reports. So I’m not shocked by my earnings of around $16 this month. But hey! That $16 is still better than the comparable 30 cents of last month. (Which I didn’t even bother to write about!) And I think that is because this month, I did in fact put in that extra little bit of effort that my “April” was lacking.

If I’ve learned anything in the many 25 years of life, its that I’m most successful when I am consistent and apply effort to the task at hand. The other key factor of success, of course, is goal setting and tracking my progress. So, without further ado, my income report for May 2017, and my goals going into June!

Here is a fun fact: though I’ve been a freelance worker since leaving college almost three years ago, I didn’t even know “Freelancer” was a possible career option until very recently. Growing up with the privilege of attending a great K-12 school and later University, let’s just say that becoming a freelance professional was probably not on my parent’s list of “potential post-graduate career options for Celia.” It wasn’t really on mine either.

I remember how when growing up people would ask me the question, “What do you want to be?” I’d always fire back with jobs that most would consider to be full-time positions. One day, it would be “Maybe a lawyer like my parents” or “A dentist” or “An English teacher” or “I’ll work in advertising!” Of course coupled with all of those full time careers, I’d always also mention “Oh, and maybe an author, too! I want to write books” or “And an actor!” Basically, I always planned on being something, but I also always planned on being everything.